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...Roswell. This New Mexico town is the Lourdes of psy-fi, just as Area 51, the supersecret facility in Nevada, is its Vatican. The story goes like this: in July 1947, flying saucers crashed near Roswell, and dead creatures and their spacecraft were taken into government custody; for a half-century, alien remains have been studied in Area 51. Officially, the place barely exists, but it and Roswell have entered the pop lexicon. Area 51 appeared in the second episode of The X-Files; it is the setting for much of Independence Day. In the hit movie The Rock...
...directing the Yeltsin campaign, a major player is the President's 36-year-old daughter Tatiana Dachenko. A graduate of Moscow State University's computer-sciences department who worked with the Russian space program plotting the trajectories of docking spacecraft, Tatiana has little time these days to spend with her businessman husband and their two teenage boys. "The President trusts her almost alone to care for his interests above all else," says a Yeltsin adviser. "He's talked about blood ties being most important in a fight like this. In that sense, they're like Jack and Bobby Kennedy...
...major-studio films. For months these promos have clogged theaters, an early goad to the moviegoers' want-see. When a trailer works, it can give its film the hint of blockbuster. The Independence Day spot has done that and more. Its shots of citizens staring up at an ominous spacecraft became famous so quickly that it inspired a rival promo: a spaceship lands and disgorges the Brady Bunch for A Very Brady Sequel...
...lurching ascent from the fens of superstition toward the cool empyrean of reason. Isaac Newton said he stood on the shoulders of giants, the thinkers who preceded him, and we stand on Newton's, plus his successors'. Because of them, we can map the human genome system and fling spacecraft past Jupiter. We are much too busy and progressive, thank you, for the magic charms and potions and amulets that so bedazzled our dim ancestors. We clasp at this faith and manage to hold on in spite of the myriad irrationalities of daily life. But every so often some public...
...poses challenging questions for planetary formation theory," says astronomer Robert Stefanik, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. That was underscored last week when, after weeks of government shutdown, results were released from a NASA experiment much closer to home. The probe's plunge from the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter's atmosphere showed that the planet has higher winds, less lightning, less water, helium and neon, and--at the point of impact at least--fewer clouds than the experts had been expecting...